YES I FINNALY DID IT!!!

YES! I figured out a part to a SONG! YES!!! well, all u old(hehe) guys must be thinking "yea...so?" but this is the first time ive figured out a part to a song! its called "NIB" by ozzie ozbourne and Primus, i think it goes like this, but my bass is out of tune so...

Umm...a little tip. It'll be easier to figure out tunes if your bass is in tune. Part of figuring out tunes is hearing the intervals between notes and being able to finger those intervals without hunting and pecking. If you're out of tune you make that a lot harder.

(i'm not sure about the last little scale-thingie but it sounds allright to me! (if the last seven doesnt work then make it a five or whatever floats yer boat)) have fun f****'n around. i warm up with this little bass line it is sooo cool.
-ChRiS

MM is right - tune yer bass, dude. It'll make it a lot easier. You've got the intervals right (good job!), but your bass is about a step off.

slipknot229 is closer, but I'm purdy sure Lester is playing down in first position (judging by the tone and the ascending riff). The whole song is in Em7, with the occasional flat 5 (E half-diminished). Here's the scale when played down there (E,F#,G,A,[Bb],B,C,D,E, lather, rinse, repeat):

The whole song is built around these two chords, solos and all. Here's a hint for the anti-theory crowd - old Geez didn't just come up with this by accident; he knew what he was doing. I'm not criticizing - you youngsters (no, not you, Deynn ) are doing a good job with your ears. But if you learn a little theory, you'll save yourself a lot of time hunting and pecking.

That's the one, Paul. Ozzy and Primus covered it for a recent Sabbath tribute album. I actually like it better than the original. Les is his usually sloppy self, but it works in this case (love Sabbath I do, they were never the tightest band in the world). With the effects it's kinda hard to ID the bass, but it's one of the fretted fours.

I haven't bothered to work out the solo intro (kinda pointless without the effects), but the rest is pretty much just an Em jam with lots of box patterns. I guess the point I was trying to make to the tab crowd (no offense) is that if you don't have any context, it sounds impossibly difficult, and would take a hundred years to 'scribe out note by note. But if you know what he's doing (and my analysis is pretty rough), it's really a pretty easy tune. It would take maybe an hour to come up with a cover that was close enough to fool the non-bass players in the crowd.

But I guess that's the goal of most people - to play something that sounds really impressive, but you secretly know is easy (which also means you can execute it without screwing it up).